An oscillation between the real and the surreal, the conscious and subconscious, navigated through a viscous maze.

This collection of excavated dreams and fantasies, bizarre descriptions of the daily and banal is an interesting take on suppressed primal urges and the release of emotion in an uninhibited and sometimes unhinged way.

The 23 stories swing between themes of matter-of-fact truths, phallic escape and release, spirituality, identity and the simultaneous surrender and victory over how we perceive life through drama, comedy and satire. These fragments are interconnected with the sticky thread of a mind that is both reptilian and humanoid, both rational and deranged, both lucid and frenzied. And as each story is ingested you will realise that this thread is a common thread that snakes its way through all of us, burrowing its way through and between our conscious and subconscious minds.

A collection of paradoxes both masculine and delicately whimsical, will unravel the fragile tangle between dream and reality as they journey, both as allies and adversaries, in this ruminative expedition.

About Armida Books

Armida Publications is a multiple-award-winning independent publisher based in Nicosia, Cyprus. We publish intelligent literary fiction of the highest standard, by both local and international authors, with Cyprus, Greece, and the Eastern Meditteranean at its core.
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